" Whoopee!" Jan yelled. "In that case I'll buy. We still have more beer in the store. It's still has ice in it so just enjoy."I went through the shop ...o find Charlie and Shawna working on the knuckle motor. I told Charlie that since Del and Jan were staying late I was going to continue working. He just nodded saying he was making too much progress on the motor and didn't want to quit either. He also said Shawna was almost finished with the tranny.I went inside, told Jan to make sure she bought. Their kind had always been considered ominous and associated with death and despair, but outside of the library, they were natural creatures, each of them horrified by the abomination brought to their presence. This scene of death and bloody feasting was now darkened with the arrival of the tarp-wrapped corpse. Even with dozens of crows screaming at him like murder victims, the man hefted the can of kerosene and removed the cap. He would burn the body while using the pit to keep the flames. I recognized one of the handcuffed suspects as the prick with the red eyes that had tried to drop a frigging window air conditioning unit on top of my head from the fire escape of a tenement in the barrio. He did his best to avoid eye contact with me but we both knew the score and he smiled behind his hand just enough to make me want to punch him in his balls to teach him some manners.Unfortunately, it was neither the time nor the place or such discipline as all boys and girls in blue were. "How was that?" I asked once they were all lined up."A gas!" responded Natasha."Wild," agreed Ana giving her a hug."Did anything happen?" I asked looking directly at Helen."No," she replied, "but there are a lot of people about. A lot more than I thought there'd be on a Sunday." Anywhere in particular?" Mostly by the park," she said.The Victoria Park was an open area that ran alongside the ring road for about a mile. It was bordered on one side by the river and on the other by the railway.